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A comprehensive history and typology of the European knightly sword from c.1050 to c.1550, that draws on evidence from literature and art as well as from archaeology.

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850-1300', Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood: Papers from the Third
Strawberry Hill Conference , ed. C. Harper-Bill and Ruth Harvey (Woodbridge,
1988), pp. 145-146 and pl. 5. It must be remembered that it was Ewart Oakeshott,
who once owned this splendid sword, who first revealed and identified the Ingelrii
inscription; a description of the unorthodox means by which this inscription was
revealed appears in Ewart Oakeshott, Records of the Medieval Sword (
Woodbridge, ...

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The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution.

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7 The closest English treatise is probably the Harleian MS 3542, which is a short
seriesof instructions regarding the “too honde swerde” (twohand sword). George
Silver also briefly covers the use of the longsword in his Paradoxes of Defence. 8
In his definitive Records of the Medieval Sword (1991) Oakeshott identifies 22
medieval sword types, continuing Peterson's typology of Vikingera and earlier
swords. Eight of these types classify what I would call longswords; types XIIa, XIII,
XIIIa, ...